Job Description

Key Outputs

• Understand category strategies and sourcing plans to support their regional execution

• Ensure a full understanding of regional buying needs

• Identify future supply and/or demand issues to ensure a proactive and effective response

• Provide intelligence on potential or existing issues on orders, requisitions and delayed deliveries

• Check accuracy of Framework PR data, ensure that Framework PRs spend is signed off by Category Manager and Business.

• Where contracts are not in place, select suppliers by getting quotations or executing the tender process (with support from relevant Category Analysts)

• Negotiate all RFQ's and pricing with the procurement officers

• Ensure the savings register is managed, kept and communicated

• Sign off RFQ's, provide guidance on evaluation, manage POs raised daily, weekly and monthly

• Track the orders and report on the order status

• Follow up with suppliers to ensure correct delivery

• Inform relevant Category Manager/Analyst about supplier pricing and delivery issues

• Understand and keep up with macro-trends and regulations in the region and communicate findings with Category Managers/Analysts.

• Communicate supply and demand issues/changes with relevant Category Managers/Analysts, ensuring spend out of contract is managed. Weekly reporting with business on spends outside contracts.

• Ensure that managers in local plants get the value agreed to from Category Management

• Link local end users to sourcing actions to ensure new supply agreements are developed and implemented appropriately. Keep a database of new suppliers that are being introduced.

• Proactively manage operational risks and challenges stemming from regions

• KPIs:

o % spend by P2P channel by plant
o Number of days' reduction in P2P cycle time by plant
o Number of deviations in good receipts versus PO
o End user satisfaction
Qualification, Experience and Competencies
Minimum Required Qualification:

• Tertiary qualification or CIPS diploma (or equivalent)

Minimum Required Experience:

• Three to Five years' experience in procurement

• Preferably experience in multiple geographies/regions

Minimum Required Competencies:
Core competencies:

• Analytical thinking

• Attention to detail

• Problem solving
• Judgement/decision making
• Verbal and written communication skills
• Applied business numeracy
• Excellence orientation
• Ethical behaviour
• Influencing and negotiation
• Time and self-management

Technical competencies:

• Analysis for business decision making
• Operational excellence
• Business acumen
• Supplier and market insight

Skills Required